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July 4, 2008
Think it's easy to form a union? Think again • Students replace
full-time Portland school custodians • Workers at Vancouver Hilton
Hotel get first contract with UNITE HERE Local 9 • Legal settlement
returns union organizer to bakery
June
20, 2008
Experienced mixer adds 'salt' to nonunion bakery • Film crew documents
postal security breaches by Beaverton contract carrier •
Big choices
ahead devising health care plan to cover all Oregonians • Bargaining
continues for first contract at Vancouver Hilton • Carpenters strike
Robinson construction
June
6, 2008
Retired Labor Press editor and columnist Gene Klare dies • Latest
anti-union ads target Jeff Merkley •
UNITE HERE Local 9 gets contract at Portland Hilton • Sizemore held
in contempt of court • Union-built Cascade Grain ethanol plant up
and running • Building trades unions say: "Enough talk. Build
the bridge now" • Steelworkers ratify new contract at Cascade
Steel • ATU gets tentative deal at Bend Transit • Labor agency
suspends 'Helping Hands' program • Union backing makes difference
in state and federal races • Obama wins Oregon Democratic primary
• Building trades endorsements get mixed results • Labor-backed
candidates do well in Portland metro area
May
16, 2008
ILWU shuts ports on May Day to protest war • Initiatives dogged
by suspicions •
How time flies: Building trades council turns 100 • Union members
don't just vote — they run for office • Machinists, Boeing
open contract talks • Steelworkers tentative deal at Cascade Steel
Rolling Mills may unravel • Bend newspaper spurns union ad supporting
bus drivers • Alliance for Retired Americans keeps retirees current
• Labor agency suspends 'Helping Hands' program
May
2, 2008
Union adversary Bill Sizemore poised for comeback • Three union-friendly
Democrats in running for Oregon secretary of state •
Lifelong union activist Michael Dembrow campaigns hard for House seat
• AFT turns up heat in nurse union campaign at Legacy • City
of Portland workers get chance to help elect their own bosses •
Connie Ashbrook: Bringing women to the trades • Classified employees
ratify four-year contract at Portland School District • Columbia-Pacific
Building Trades Council backs several local candidates
April
18, 2008
Labor will honor workers killed on the job • Oregon hashing out
details of universal health insurance requirement •
NAFTA-style deal with Colombia taken off fast track • Asbestos continues
to sicken, kill U.S. workers • War protest May 1 could shut down
ports • Bus drivers' union steers industry toward healthier workplace
• Proposed Worker Memorial slowed by hefty fee requirement •
Highly profitable steel mil asks workers to take wage freeze • Plumbers
apprentice coordinator Bob Kimes retires; Mike Pollock will succeed him
April
4, 2008
Boycott of downtown Portland Hilton picks up steam • National health
care may be on the horizon •
Colombia Free Trade Agreement expected to get vote in Congress •
AFL-CIO issues endorsements in races for attorney general and U.S. Congress
• Building trades union council endorses Gordon Smith in primary
• Northwest Oregon Labor Council supports Sam Adams for Portland
mayor • In race for Oregon attorney general, labor on both sides
• Card-check union campaigns aren't flooding Oregon with new members
• Kitzhaber asks unions to help reform U.S. health care system •
Working America expands in Oregon • Elevator Constructors Local
23 returns Regalado to top leadership position
March
21, 2008
Gardner resigns as labor commissioner; governor appoints Brad Avakian
• IBEW launches union campaign at Comcast •
Union electricians, contractors come to the aid of family of fallen soldier
• Portland school board members show true colors in contract vote
• Oregon AFSCME backs Obama • Promoting 'green collar' jobs
is focus of LERC's new STAR Fund
March
7, 2008
Union helps students train for robotics competition • Postal workers
say mail is being processed without anthrax-sniffing machines •
Oregon's
special legislative session wraps up with only minor achievements •
U.S. trade deficit with China zooms • Building Trades charter school
will open this fall • Grocery, meat workers wrap up more contracts
• Portland Public Schools bus drivers ratify contract • Bakers
Local 114 holds job fair for nonunion crew • Part-time PSU profs
get
February
15, 2008
OSEA joins American Federation of Teachers • Portland Public Schools
backs off hardline stance •
Labor has short agenda for legislative session in Salem • AFL-CIO
backs mortgage reforms • Labor ally Hooley to leave Congress •
Underpaid professors plan to picket PSU • LERC to celebrate 30th
anniversary March 7 • Labor battling in Washington Legislature —
sometimes with Democrats • Law tilts against unions, but labor can't
give up fight
February
1, 2008
Portland Public Schools sticks to draconian offers • Union membership
on the rise; Oregon adds 16,000, Washington 30,000 •
Task force favors I-5 Bridge replacement • Apollo Alliance maps
strategy for '09 Legislature • Washington labor turns attention
to Olympia • Eugene/Springfield grocery workers ratify new pacts
• CWA calls for boycott of Unitus Credit Union • ATU 757 calls
off ambulance strike in Josephine County • BOLI survey will evaluate
HVAC testing, balancing work • Three Carpenters locals endorse John
Kroger for attorney general
January
18, 2008
Unions favor building a new bridge over Columbia • Northwest members
of Congress score well in national AFL-CIO ratings •
Oregon AFL-CIO leader, back from Bali, says it's time for labor to step
up • Laborers Union gets health insurance for City of Portland seasonal
workers • ATU Local 757 members ready to strike AMR in Josephine
County
January
4, 2008
2008: The year of China • Foster kids' holiday party gets boost
from UA Local 290
December
21, 2007
ILWU, Carpenters boost Fire Fighters Toy & Joy program • AFSCME
strike at Multnomah Education Service District ends after two weeks •
Help extended
to storm-ravaged union families on coast • Oregon Fire Fighters
Council endorses Gordon Smith • AFL-CIO calls for Hilton boycott
• UA Local 290 to host robotics competition kickoff • Iron
Workers Local 29 elects officers
December
7, 2007
Looking for the UNION LABEL • Multnomah ESD classified staff go
on strike Nov. 30 • Portland school employees getting restless •
UNITE HERE Local 9 calls for Hilton boycott • Unions join nationwide
protest against anti-union NLRB •
Oregon AFL-CIO's Byrd to attend climate change conference in Bali •
Labor has voice on panel examining Oregon's tax system • NLRB Subregion
36 gets new chief officer • Fahey to run for seat on Portland City
Council • Judy O'Connor, Bob Petroff re-elected at NOLC •
Teamsters' Lehrbach appointed to TriMet Board of Directors • IBEW
48 member named to State Transportation Commission • AFT Local 111
elects new president
November
16, 2007
Craft unions welcome veterans into training programs • AFSCME backs
Clinton despite Western leaders' call for no early endorsement •
Oregon board finds Josephine County used outsourcing to punish strikers
• Hit-and-run driver kills Eugene labor activist • Mesothelioma
claims UA's Deblock, 73
November
2, 2007
AFL-CIO rates Oregon lawmakers on 2007 session • Powell's Books
workers get closer to living wage • ConMetco's Rivergate plant closes
• Schneider to run for Gresham Council • Washington AFL-CIO
issues election recommendations • Madelyn Elder named to CWA Executive
Board • SEIU's Dale won't run for AG post • SEIU locals endorse
John Edwards
October
19, 2007
Oregon AFL-CIO ramps up for aggressive Labor 2008 • Edwards tells
labor he'll be a true friend as president • Kucinich says he'd pull
out of NAFTA • Immigration reform, drug testing spark the most debate
at convention • Delegates set policy with resolutions • Activists
and unions get recognition • PPS superintendent, board members tour
schools • IBEW instructor returns from duty in Iraq • AFSCME
Local 88 members ratify four-year contract at Multnomah County
October
5, 2007
Conversion to renewable energy generating jobs • Metro councilors
vote themselves 16 percent raises • SEIU leader considers run for
attorney general • U.S.-Peru trade pact gets mixed reaction from
labor • Steelworkers target Home Depot stores in solidarity with
striking B.C. workers • School custodian gets settlement check,
but not closure • UFCW backs Merkley for Senate • Kucinich,
Edwards will pay visit to Oregon AFL-CIO convention
September
21, 2007
Sweeney, Edwards will headline Oregon AFL-CIO convention • Labor
Council opposes tax-funded day labor center • Disabled worker programs
act as a wedge for privatization • New group formed for union members
who like to hunt and fish • Fire Fighters use new card-check law
to secure union • Maintenance workers ratify new pact with Portland
Schools by one vote • Farra elected secretary-treasurer of Transit
Union Local 757 • Oregon AFL-CIO endorses Measures 49,50
September
7, 2007
Senator Smith makes effort to court labor • Oregon will release
names of employers whose workers get low-income benefits • Health
care mandate for construction workers? Portland takes baby steps •
Panel will measure use of academic part-timers • City of Portland
pledges to buy no sweatshop apparel • AFSCME reaches tentative deal
for 4,000 state workers • Meeting in Newport, building trades unions
savor legislative victories • Carpenters organizer allowed to leave
U.S. on his own • Labor Democrats back Merkley for Senate
August
17, 2007
Pulse of the Unions • Labor to keep pushing for freedom to unionize
• Circuit City lands on AFL-CIO's Do Not Patronize list •
School employees vote on affiliation with AFT • Oregon AFL-CIO E-Board
rejects 2005 resolution supporting Kyoto Protocol • Enron workers
case may reach high court • Hardhats want Pepsico to be built by
local workers • CWA Local 7901 reaches stalemate with local credit
union
August
3, 2007
Union-built gas-fired power plant goes online in Oregon • Construction
unions seek level playing field on health care • As cases of 'popcorn
workers lung' spread, unions demand action • Postal service unions
pitch vote-by-mail to top elections officers • New IBEW Local 48
business manager outlines goals and priorities
July
20, 2007
Machinists end strike, sign three-year deal at Freightliner • Major
victory for labor: Democratic House torpedoes trade deals • Construction
unions voice support for liquefied natural gas terminal • Letter
carriers' new pact may slow outsourcing • Lawmakers nibble around
the edges trying to fix health care • Labor planning ballot measure
strategy to counter Sizemore
July
6, 2007
Machinists strike Freightliner • Legislature bangs gavel on banner
year for labor • Drywallers end strike with ratification of new
contract • Senate Republicans block vote on labor organizing bill
• Del Monte raid puts Portland at center of immigration debate •
Unions to push vote-by-mail at national conference of state elections
officials • State corrections officers stick with AFSCME union • Local
757 members protest C-TRAN's inadequate offer • Clif Davis elected
business manager of IBEW Local 48 • Six unions form Mechanical Allied
Crafts, new council created in Oregon • Warehouse fire doesn't douse
spirit of Red's Electric owner Jim Ferris
June
15, 2007
Carpenters drywall hangers go on strike • Major bargaining this
summer in Oregon • Custodial outsourcing at Portland schools proves
costly mistake • Portland School District implements contract on
DCU • Labor bills fight for attention as Oregon Legislature winds
down • Nurses tell public hearing of their problems at Legacy
June
1, 2007
Afghan-Iraqi Freedom War Memorial has union ties • Labor still reeling
from 1981 PATCO strike • Labor lobbyists scramble to push through
priority bills • Labor chalks up some election victories •
Smith feeling pressure to support Employee Free Choice Act
May
18, 2007
Presidential hopeful visits Portland, Seattle labor • SEIU 49 agrees
to no card check organizing • Major reform possible in immigration
policy • Labor sees partial gains, modest disappointments at Olympia
• Washington Congressman Brian Baird explains positions on union
issues • Oregon unions join in push for energy independence •
Bend transit contractor drops appeal of ATU union election
May
4, 2007
Fired Portland school custodians settle for $14.5 million • Contractor
fires pro-union Bend bus driver • Maintenance crew at Portland Schools
votes to authorize strike • Freightliner cutbacks have ripple effects
at several local manufacturing suppliers • PDC staffers vote to
join AFSCME • NW Oregon Labor Council supports two challengers for
Portland School Board • Overtime pay after eight hours will have
to wait • In Oregon Legislature, many labor-backed bills advancing
• UFCW Local 555 shop stewards hear from Dick Gephardt at annual
summit
April
20, 2007
Portland union members tell Congress: 'No new NAFTAs' • Independent
union attempts raid on Oregon AFSCME corrections unit • AFSCME 189
suspends labor-management cooperation with Portland mayor • Heart
attack claims Laborers Local 296 business manager Little Richard Steward
• Labor will honor Oregon workers killed on the job • 5,000
attend NW Carpenters unity rally in Portland • Students try handling
40-ton crane • Portland unions weigh in on proposed charter changes
on May ballot • AFSCME Council 75 re-elects Gillespie president;
dedicates building to Lucy
April 6,
2007
End of the line for Freightliner trucks • Union wants to put stop
to college shift to part-time, lower-paid faculty • Carpenters go
high-tech as they prepare for contract talks • Kitzhaber headlines
meeting of union retirees • Unions in 7 countries meet in Portland
to seek unity in bargaining with Boeing • Nearly 1,000 turn out
for Providence Hospital union vigil
March
16, 2007
Letter Carriers deliver message: No privatization • Change to Win
unions share organizing ideas • Labor opposes 'strong mayor' form
of government • Two central labor councils east of Cascade Range
merge • Freightliner Machinists prepare for layoff, bargaining
March
2, 2007
Lobbyist for Labor: AFSCME’s
Mary Botkin walks the halls of Salem • Freightliner
counts down to mass layoff at Swan Island • AFSCME files for union
election at PDC• Union members ask Portland to take anti-sweatshop
action
February
16, 2007
Bill Sizemore: Back in business • Willy Myers elected at Sheet Metal
Local 16 • Unionist rub elbows with lawmakers at legislative forum
• Labor council re-elects slate of officers
February
2, 2007
Facing the coming labor shortage • Union membership in U.S. falls
by 326,000 • Movie fictionalizing 1999 WTO protest films for three
days in Seattle • Carpenter organizer gets reprieve before deportation
• L.A. lab works to improve odds against asbestos cancer •
First U.S.-made streetcars will carry union label • Oregon senator
helps scuttle minimum wage bill • PDC Board wants more time to amend
new construction wage policy • Portland Public Schools hires former
union official for labor relations job • Bus strike looms in Corvallis
• AFSCME rallies for new contract at Clackamas County • Kaiser
gets okay to build new hospital
January
19, 2007
PDC adopts wage policy for private construction projects • Wyden
touts universal health coverage plan at business summit • Freightliner
building new manufacturing plant in Mexico • New Democratic majority
in House gets busy passing labor bills • Bend bus drivers campaign
to join ATU Local 757 • SEIU campaign to organize bus drivers stalls
January
5, 2007
Solving the crisis in health care: 2007 will be the best chance in years
• Oregon labor unions gear up ambitious political agenda •
Bus operators to take strike vote in Corvallis • Union members in
Oregon Legislature get key posts • Labor commissioner lists goals
for second term • Custodial Board rejects PPS' proposed hiring plan
• In lame duck session, Congress passes anti-worker trade law •
What's in that union-made bread? Daughters of Bakers Local 114 members
have won four pageant crowns
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